A Climate of Confessionalization
Famine and Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Ghazarian (0000-0003-0895-2180, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 484-504 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743822000502 |
| OpenAlex | W4294308021 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
After the 1877–78 Russo-Ottoman War, the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of ethnic and sectarian clashes in Anatolia, the Balkans, and elsewhere, and the task of explaining that rise remains unfinished. Many have examined the intellectual formations of ethnic and sectarian solidarities after 1878, but the availability of new ideas cannot alone account for their widespread uptake. Why after 1878 did ordinary people respond more to calls upon ethnic and sectarian solidarity? Drawing on sources surrounding the 1879 famine in the Ottoman East, this article steps away from imperial metropoles to examine overlapping environmental, financial, and technological disjunctures. Adopting the methods of political ecology, the article underscores the simultaneous effects of drought, sovereign default, and an influx of modern weapons, each of which imposed uneven hardships along ethno-religious lines. Together, they created a climate of lived confessionalization that highlighted the communal categories upon which emergent movements called
Ancient history · Archaeology · Empire · Ethnic group · Famine · Ottoman empire · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Sovereignty · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Turkey's Politics and Society
Deep History
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
The Idea of the Muslim World
Agha, shaikh, and state
Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands
The Well-Protected Domains
Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire
Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926
Culture of Sectarianism
Poverty and famines an essay on entitlement and deprivation
Entitlements or empowerment? famine and starvation in Africa
Silent Violence
The Sheikh and the Missionary
The politics of unity
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable and Capital Market Information Flows
The Ottoman Conscription System, 1844–1914
Rulers, Guns, and Money
El Niño and the Nomads
Betraying Behita
Imagined communities
Tools of Revolution
Ottoman Population 1830-1914
The Sultan's Messenger
The Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya in the Ottoman Lands in the Early 19th Century
Climate and Capital
Deception and Violence in the Ottoman Empire
The Politics of Taxation and the 'Armenian Question' during the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1908
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |